Creating private non-profit, consumer-governed health insurance plans called Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs) is part of the U.S. government’s strategy to increase lower-cost health insurance options for its citizens under the Affordable Care Act.

This article is the first in a two-part series about how radiology practices can derive superior business intelligence from their existing coding and payment data.

Health-care IT professionals are no strangers to the complexities that arise from managing ever-growing archives. One particular subset of the data stored across the enterprise, however, might be overlooked: email archives. Although one analysis by Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Milford, Massachusetts—a market-research and analyst company

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for early adopters to launch accountable-care organization (ACO) demonstration projects and shared-savings programs in 2012. The development of these value-added services and the general trend toward formation of ACOs will undoubtedly lead to changes not only in the acquisition of imaging

Thomas Pope, MD, a musculoskeletal MRI and breast-imaging specialist with Radisphere National Radiology Group (Beachwood, Ohio), began his career in subspecialty imaging before it was common for radiologists to be fellowship trained. “I never did a fellowship, but I received on-the-job training in musculoskeletal radiology from my mentor at the

This article is the second in a four-part series on options for hospital–practice integration. To read the first article, click here.

Here we go again: In a replay of the early, heady days when HMOs and managed-care models blurred the lines between payor and provider, we are again seeing health-care consolidation on a dizzying scale—which is almost obliterating that line completely. Two recent deals are emblematic of both the movement toward integrating into new models of care

Health care expenditures may be spiraling out of control, but spending on medical devices as a percentage of total U.S. health spending has remained relatively unchanged for the past several decades, according to a study sponsored by the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed).